7/06/2009

We Tell Stories, LA’s acclaimed children’s storytelling theatre company, celebrates the County of Los Angeles Library's Summer Reading Program, “Be Creative @ Your Library,” with 8 different performances about creativity and imagination at the Culver City Julian Dixon Library. Shows are interactive, multi-cultural, and educational blending laughter and literacy together for fun-filled afternoons for parents and children alike.

The Culver City Julian Dixon Library is located at 4975 Overland Avenue, Culver City 90230.Performances are every Wednesday at 2 pm from July 1st through August 19th and are 45-minutes long.Admission is free.

“Be Creative @ Your Library” Performance Schedule

Wednesday, July 1 at 2 pm

“Flying” - Stories about flight including the famous Greek myth “Daedalus and Icarus.”

Wednesday, July 8 at 2 pm

“Music”– A French fable, an African American rap poem, and an African folktale entertain with musical elements.

In unique We Tell Stories fashion, actors unfurl imaginative costumes and props from an old steamer trunk and the fun begins. Audience members participate from their seats, then join actors on stage to play an integral part in the performance. Parents and kids delight in this family activity that is both entertaining, as well as culturally enriching.

With a repertoire of twelve "trunk shows," WTS brings classic literature and folk tales to life in classrooms, theatres, schools, museums, festivals, special events, and libraries. We Tell Stories’ goals are to inspire creativity, enhance literacy, cultivate intercultural awareness and harmony, and spark a love of the theatre and spoken word. Since 1981, WTS has been promoting arts education in schools throughout the Southland with assembly programs, and student & professional development workshops.

For a complete schedule of events, visit “The Arts Are Alive in Culver City” at http://www.culvercity.org/culture.asp. Performances are made possible in part by a grant from the City of Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program Fund with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment. The Culver City Julian Dixon Library is part of the County of Los Angeles Public Library: http://www.colapublib.org/libs/culvercity/

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We Tell Stories is a multi-ethnic theatre troupe that educates, nurtures, bonds, and strengthens our artists and communities by enriching the art and summoning the power of storytelling and theatre.
Our goals are to inspire creativity, enhance literacy, cultivate intercultural awareness and harmony, and to spark a love for theatre and the spoken word.
Our stories are original adaptations of classic myths, legends, fairy tales, and literature representing humanity’s collective wisdom made relevant to today’s society. They elucidate the values of compassion, humor, valor, and responsibility that express the universality of the human condition. We perform in an extemporaneous style much akin to children at play. In so doing, the process of theatre is revealed, and children find their own voices. Audience members play integral roles in every story, and kids walk away saying, “I can do that!”